"[^>]*" any number of characters which are not >... :)

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On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Andres Riancho
<andres.rian...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Olle,
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:54 AM, olle <o...@nxs.se> wrote:
> > Hi guys!
> >
> > The regexp in the ajax grep plugin sucks.
>
> Oh, I *love* emails that start like this! =)
>
> > It infiniloops on a current site
> > I'm assessing. So I took the liberty of cleaning it up a bit. The new
> code
> > does what I suspect the old one was trying to do, but isn't a complete
> and
> > utter disaster performance wise. ;)
> >
> > I replaced these lines:
> >
> > regex_string = '< *?script.*?>.*?'
> > ...
> > regex_string += '.*?</ *?script *?>'
> >
> > with this:
> >
> > regex_string = '<\W*script[^>]*>.*'
> > ...
> > regex_string += '.*</\W*script[^>]*>'
>
> The \W seems to be ok.
> But I don't fully understand the meaning of this section: "[^>]*",
> could you explain it?
>
> >
> > Andres, could you please reveiew and check in this change?
>
> Sure, when we I understand your regex =)
>
> > Cheers,
> >
> > /olle
> >
> >
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